In fact, I've come to feel that this is only true up to a point. Some movements do not deserve equal space, because in practice they are disgusting. If a group of Nazis set up a demo in Tel Aviv calling for the extermination of all Jews, I'd expect them to have difficulty. This is comparable. Every women in the street was looking at people who want to reduce her to a chattel, make her wear a sack, treat her word as worth a fraction that of a man, and be subject to physical violence at the discretion of men.

This is not a detached political debate.

These people really are representatives of a movement that stones rape victims to death, that murders people by their thousands, that throws acid in the faces of, or beheads, schoolgirls.

What I mean is that you are lapsing into hyperbole. If the protesters in question had been stoning a rape victim or beheading a schoolgirl, then I would most certainly hope and expect that the crowd would intervene and deliver some summary justice in the form of violence, but they weren't doing that.

'We' the pre-existing population of the UK have 'invited' a group of people into the country, out of a sense of compassion, brotherhood and common humanity.

'We' now find that this group or individuals belonging to the group are attacking the our country that has given them shelter, often from persecution and bestial conditions in the country they have fled.

It is no longer an academic question: are this group a threat? It has been demonstrated on a number of occasions that they are, and are prepared to put their undoubted technological abilities to use in an attempt to kill maim and injure otherwise unconnected individuals in the host community.

So when a small band (large band) identify themselves without doubt and hurl threats of violence and murder. I am quite sanguine at the prospect of fighting fire with fire.

Much has been endured from this group, be it Arafat with his murderous rampages through the civil airline industry, or the latest manifestation of the genre, murderous rampages through the London Underground system.

What is lacking is my right not to have them live in my country in the first place.

Lets have the vote on whether they can stay here or any more come in.

Trooper Thompson - that group who shouted them down. What makes them fascists? Is it because they are white and have actually dimly noticed that the demo was an affront to them? It seemed pretty spontaneous - the counter demo.

Anyhow all this crap about fascists, next you lot will be on about islamo-fascism, and anti-semitism. Cobblers.